So okay, the Feedburner RSS subscriber count has just lost its credibility. A video demo by the guys at Next Web shows you how to pump your Feedburner subscriber count to thousands overnight.
Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.
I guess that’s the way Feedburner counts RSS subscription. Anything is possible nowadays.
they need to fix this issue asap
Google should exclude the NETVIBE* i don’t know the spelling… the one that is really being manipulated.
The opposite happened to me. I checked yesterday and it showed 0 subscribers. I was expecting at least one reader because I subscribe to my own feeds.
Honesty is still the best policy. Nonetheless, Feedburner should address the issue ASAP.
we can also manipulate rss count reader via igoogle.